“Responsible Businesses strive to offer consumers safe and healthy products despite weaknesses in Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)” The Toxic Substances Control Act, passed in 1976, allows the EPA to regulate chemicals to ensure that chemicals are safe throughout their…
It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed. Life was nearly wiped out 250 million years ago, with only 10 per cent of plants and animals…
More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet’s existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus. In a paper published today in the…
Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) sets out his novel…
Have you ever wondered why stems grow upwards and roots downwards? Why plants always seem to turn towards the light and climbing plants run up the trellis rather than down? The answer is simple: auxin! But maybe not that simple,…
A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s…
Asteroid DA14 close encounter with Earth: According to a news published by European Space Agency, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet in 2013. The asteroid, 50m in size, will come even closer to earth than many…
Geologists from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne have demonstrated new scientific results in the April issue of the scholarly journal Geology, which provide a new theory on the earliest phase of continental formation. The earth’s structure can be compared…
Continuing with our series of best nature and wildlife photos of 2011, this post lists best and award winning environmental photos of 2011. The source of the images is National Geographic and image copyright information is available below individual photos….
We have collected the best collection of nature and wildlife photographs of 2011 from various resources such as National Geographic, Discovery etc. Here are the best nature and wildlife photographs Urban Wildlife: “Champagne Starling” Starlings burst like bubbles from a…